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Chamberlands Estates, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lake Tahoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96141. It stands on McKinney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Homewood quadrangle.

Chamberlands Estates within Placer County

Then and now

1891 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chamberlands Estates, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Chamberlands Estates, surveyed 1891

Compare 1891 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Chamberlands Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 271 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony44
Natural35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning13
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitANN
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestPEN
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitMCKINNEY
6 September 2003Naturalunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitBUCK 2
4 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitBLACKWOOD
4 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionW LAKE BL NORTH_TAHOE_FD
30 September 1996Debris and open burning3.0 acresLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitGENERAL
3 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unit9TH AV MEEKS_BAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Placer County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Chamberlands Estates: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Arsenic, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
CraigGold, SilverPast Producer
Mangatop ProspectManganeseProducer
Tahoe Treasure ProspectGold, Copper, ArsenicPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
Tahoe Treasure ProspectGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Placer County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tahoma Meadows0.4 miles32
Chambers Lodge0.6 miles32
Homewood1.3 miles32
Tahoma1.3 miles32
Tahoe Pines2.5 miles32
Idlewild2.7 miles32
Timberland4.1 miles32
Pine Land4.6 miles32

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122597674The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1723418. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.